TIFF Review: Colette
Director Wash Westmoreland and his late partner Richard Glatzer last visited the Toronto International Film Festival with Still Alice,...
Read MoreTIFF Review: The Weekend – “A delightful comedy”
It’s fairly common that festival viewing tends to revolve around more serious subject matter – case in point the multiple stories of...
Read MoreTIFF Review: Roma – “The imagery is stunningly sharp”
In 1971, a live-in maid and nanny experiences love and loss while working for an upper-middle class family in the Mexico City district of...
Read MoreReview: The Predator – “Soulless and so uninspired”
Normally in the LFF canteen, we’re fighting over who gets to review what. “Can I go to Venice, this time Phil?”, that kind of thing. With...
Read MoreReview: Mandy – “A nightmare vision of lost love”
The setting for a perfect movie show is everything, isn’t it? I regularly now see people watching a projection of ‘Jaws’, whilst floating...
Read MoreTIFF Review: High Life – “Disturbing and uncomfortable to watch”
The opening sequence of High Life shows Robert Pattinson fixing the outside of a spaceship. Inside, a baby girl in a makeshift play-pen is...
Read MoreTIFF Review: A Million Little Pieces
At the beginning of Million Little Pieces a quote by Mark Twain adorns the screen: “I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life. ...
Read MoreTIFF Review: What They Had
Sometimes, later in a film festival, once the bright lights of the big premieres dim, you can come across a little gem that you never saw...
Read MoreTIFF Review: The Kindergarten Teacher
A kindergarten teacher becomes obsessed with the poetic talent of a student. While teaching kindergarten, Lisa Spinelli (Maggie...
Read MoreTIFF Review: A Star is Born – “Bradley Cooper’s dazzling directorial debut”
The roar of the crowd is deafening. You can feel it in your chest and your ears object to the insult but it’s like you’re...
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